->'''Poncho:''' You're hit. You're bleeding, man.\\'''Blain:''' [[TropeNamers I ain't got time to bleed.]]\\'''Poncho:''' Oh, okay...\\''Poncho fires several grenades into the air''\\'''Poncho:''' You got time to duck?-->-- ''Film/{{Predator}}''

Quite often, when TheHero has been in some terrific struggle with life and death hanging in the balance, he'll get hurt and not even notice it. The pain of the wound never registers with the character anymore than the fact that he's losing blood. It's only after everything has calmed down that he even becomes aware that he's injured, as if the wound never truly existed until TheHero himself observes it.

If the hero is a true [[{{Badass}} tough guy]], he'll shrug the injury off as if it were nothing more than an inconvenience and drive on.

This is actually TruthInTelevision: adrenaline suppresses pain. This is a survival trait, as pain exists to warn of injuries but can be debilitating in a dangerous situation. It's common for a person to be unaware of their own injuries during a fight, only to succumb to them afterwards.

A trait common to both an ImplacableMan and a {{Determinator}}. Can sometimes be caused by FeelNoPain. At its most extreme, this can lead to a TimeDelayedDeath.

See also MajorInjuryUnderreaction.

----!!Examples:

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[[folder: Anime And Manga ]]

* During the harrowing Eclipse, [[{{Manga/Berserk}} Guts]] makes the final decision to [[LifeOrLimbDecision sever his own arm]] that was caught in the jaws of a demon in order to save his lover Casca from Femto [[spoiler: who is in the middle of raping her.]] We can easily say that Guts was [[UnstoppableRage so pissed off]] and so very [[HeroicResolve determined to save Casca]] that the pain of hacking off his arm just wasn't registering to him. Lo, Guts doesn't even pass out from the blood loss until after [[spoiler: Casca's rape is completed after his last attempt [[HopeSpot was cruelly quashed]].]]

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[[folder: Comic Books ]]

* In ''Comicbook/ThePunisherMAX'', Frank goes on a rampage after the graves of his family are desecrated, trying to force the city government to bury them so he can get his head straight and go after the guy who did it. After an assault on a gang house, he later notices that he was shot in the arm and thinks that he should probably get it patched up. We later find out that he hadn't even bothered to take the bullet out.

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[[folder: Fan Fiction ]]

* In the ''Anime/SonicX'' fanfic ''FanFic/DontKeepYourDistance'', which is otherwise largely pretty sanitized in content, protagonist Paint punches through her truck's windshield and crawls through to retrieve the keys to the trailer in order to rescue her friend, a reformed robot of Dr. Eggman's named Star, who is being kept inside. Only minutes later, when they are both (along with thousands of others in the city they're staying in) captured and taken aboard to his aircraft, does she realize she's bleeding all over.

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[[folder: Film ]]

* The [[TropeNamer Trope Name]] comes from a mid-firefight conversation between Poncho and Blain in ''Film/{{Predator}}'':-->'''Poncho:''' "You're hit. You're bleeding, man."-->'''Blain:''' "I ain't got time to bleed."-->'''Pancho:''' (confused) "Oh... okay."** Jesse Ventura then used this as the title of his first book about politics.* In ''Film/YoungSherlockHolmes'', Holmes doesn't notice he has received a cut under his eye until his fencing lesson with Raithe is over.* Barbossa gets shot at the end ''[[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl]]'', and mocks Jack for wasting his shot on someone [[WhoWantsToLiveForever who can't die]]. A few seconds later, the curse gets lifted and the wound ''becomes'' fatal and starts bleeding profusely.* ''Film/MasterAndCommander: The Far Side of the World'' features Captain Jack Aubrey getting a full report on the injured and killed in a battle with a French warship. At the end of the Doctor's speech, the Captain begins to turn away only to have the Doctor say, "Let me have a look at that scalp." It's only then that Captain Aubrey puts his hand up to his brow and realizes he's been wounded.* In ''Film/TheWolverine'', unless the wound is fatal, most characters will shrug off injuries and fight on without any detriments to their skill. Although in Wolverine's case, once he has time to rest, his wounds will catch up to him.

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[[folder: Literature ]]

* [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Granny Weatherwax]] uses magic to suppress injuries gained in a fight until she has time to deal with them. Basically, she invokes this trope in the most literal way.** Of course, with Granny what she does with magic is vastly outweighed by what she does by force of will; pain she handles by handling it. But if necessary, (i.e. in case of vampires), she can hold hot iron and put off being burned until she has time to have a burned hand. At that point she's also laid out a burn treatment kit.** Earlier in the book she had scoffed at the idea of holding hot iron and not being burned; the distinction between separating cause and effect by an arbitrary span of time and rejecting the effect altogether is stressed.** She does it again in ''Discworld/{{Maskerade}}'', when she does a BareHandedBladeBlock to the astonishment of all present (everyone knows witches can't use magic on steel - it doesn't occur to them that they ''can'' use magic on flesh). It's not until she's home a few days later that she rolls out the salve and bandages and lets the wound happen. The scenario is probably a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer- after preparing the first aid gear, she remarks, "I reckon I've got time now."* Also from the Discworld, Detritus of the Night Watch is injured at one point, which is no mean feat, since he's made of stone. When his cracks begin oozing some strange liquid, he invokes the trope name by saying he "Ain't got time to ooze."* ''Literature/CityOfThieves''' main character, Lev, doesn't notice [[spoiler: losing half of a finger in a fight.]]* In ''Literature/TheLastFullMeasure'', Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's "Bloody Chamberlain" wound at Quaker Road is depicted: the bullet went ''around'' his ribcage, so despite being apparently shot through the chest he continues leading his troops into battle. (He actually seems more worried about the wound to his horse.)

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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]

* PlayedForLaughs in the episode "Alice Quits" of ''Series/{{Workaholics}}'', during an airsoft gun battle.-->'''Adam''': (macho voice) I ain't got time to bleed.-->'''Ders''': You're bleeding?-->'''Adam''': (normal voice) No, because (macho voice) I ain't got ''time to bleed.''* Benjamin Sisko does this in the ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'' episode "Adversary".* Invoked in one episode of ''Series/{{MASH}}'', where a soldier insists to Hawkeye that while ''he'' is fine, his unconscious friend is the one who needs a doctor. The friend's wounds are minor, and its only after Hawkeye tells the soldier his friend will be fine that we discover that the soldier who carried his friend into the hospital is almost mortally wounded himself and has been holding it together long enough to get his buddy to medical attention.* Played with on ''Series/{{Community}}''. During a high-stakes game of paintball, Jeff notices red on his clothes. At first he think he's been hit, but then he realizes it's blood and exclaims "Wait, wait... it's blood. [laughs] I thought it was paint but I'm just bleeding. Talk about luck!"* On ''Series/TheWestWing'': When President Bartlett is shot in the first season finale, he doesn't realize it until the guy in the back of the car with him notices he's bleeding. This was based on the real life assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.* An interesting inversion of this comes in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}''. When a Number One gets fatally wounded at one point, he's too impatient to wait to bleed out, so he ''cuts open his own carotid artery with a spent shell casing'' in order to die quicker so he can download into a new body.* In the ''Series/{{Sherlock}}'' episode "[[Recap/SherlockS03E02TheSignOfThree The Sign of Three]]", this is a part of the murderer's MO. [[spoiler: He stabs his victims with a blade so fine that they don't feel the wound, and perfectly places the stab wound so that the victim's belt puts enough pressure on it to hold it closed. His victims don't realize that they've been stabbed until they remove their belts and start to bleed to death.]]

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[[folder: Professional Wrestling ]]

* During his match with ReyMysterio at WWE Over the Limit 2010, CMPunk collided with the ring barrier quite hard which busted him open fairly badly. As is the case with all bleeding in WWE since its switch to a PG rating, medics were quickly rushed out to conceal the blood before the match could continue. However, growing tired of waiting, Punk pushed the medics aside mid-check up and dropkicked Mysterio out of the ring in frustration.

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* Subverted in one of the unused lines for [[VideoGame/TeamFortress2 Meet the Sandvich]].-->'''Soldier''': You cannot hurt me, I do not have ''time'' to bleed!\\''*CRACK*''\\'''Soldier''': My schedule has just opened up! Aaaohhww, my God!** Soldier's Equalizer (boosts attack power when low on health) comes with this trope in a form of achievement. You need to kill enemies with it when you health's at critical.

* In ''PennyAndAggie'', when Gary attacks Rich without warning at a party, Rich's initial reaction is simply to shout "Ow!", punch him out, and wonder whether Gary was trying to give him a "purple nurple." He doesn't notice, until Stan points it out, that he has a knife in his chest and is bleeding profusely. "Doesn't really hurt," he says, before passing out.

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[[folder: Real Life ]]

* Can happen in RealLife. Sometimes you'll cut yourself but won't notice until you look at the wound directly. This especially happens when the circumstances make small cuts and other injuries commonplace.** Chefs, for example, often nick themselves while cutting food, or burn themselves slightly while cooking, and not only never seem to notice, but if other people point out that they are hurt, tend to take such things in stride because they are so used to it happening.** It's a combination of the injury being unexpected, and adrenaline keeping you from feeling the pain.* General Albert Sidney Johnston of the Confederacy was shot in the back of the knee at the Battle of Shiloh. Apparently he didn't notice that the bullet had nicked an artery which was bleeding profusely. No one else noticed until he nearly fell out of his saddle. His aides helped him off his horse and sat him down against a tree, where he promptly died.* Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was shot apparently through the chest at Quaker Road. Thanks to the contents of his pocket, the bullet took a truly bizarre route under the skin but over his ribcage, resulting in a very bloody but survivable wound. He continued leading his troops in the assault and got treatment after he was done. He came to be known as "Bloody Chamberlain" because this kind of thing happened to him several times, though not to such extremes in the other cases. He eventually died due to complications from his Civil War wounds...in 1914 at the age of 85.* The ''Sherlock'' example in TV, above, is remarkably similar to what happened to Empress Elisabeth of Austria ("Sisi") in 1898; she was stabbed by an [[BombThrowingAnarchist anarchist]] with an extremely fine, sharpened needle file and the flow of blood was slowed by her extremely tight corset.